Chapter 20 No.20

Roman Comedy. Plautus. About 254 To 184 b.c.

The era in which Roman epic and tragic poetry arose was also the flourishing era of Roman comedy. A later generation looked back on the age of Ennius and Plautus as an age of great poets, who had passed away:-

Ea tempestate flos poetarum fuit

Qui nunc abierunt hinc in communem locum1.

And amo